www.ChicagoBloggers.com

Hey, here's a little bit of good news.

I just got an email yesterday from ChicagoBloggers.com and they're adding my blog to their website. You can see my recently added blog, in their listing, here. As a Recently Added blog to their site, I think that my blog will be featured on their homepage, eventually. Which will only serve to draw a little more attention here.

ChicagoBloggers is a really wonderful, surprisingly simple website that links its viewers to a host of Chicago area blogs. They model their website by the CTA map. So, you can view the blogs that are written by people in your area. (Or if you're feeling adventurous, wander around to other el stops and see what people are writing there.) For people who know the city layout, it's a fun way to navigate the landscape of the Chicago Blogosphere.

Several of the blogs that I check daily (Arnie Niekamp's wonderful, "A Year In Pictures of Working", Don Hall's inciteful "An Angry White Guy In Chicago" and Madge Hixx's thoughtful "Chicago Stories" ) are all listed on Chicago Bloggers.com. So, I feel like this is a nice, little step closer to providing the quality blog entries that those good folks regularly put out. (If you haven't already, I encourage you to explore any or all of those, right now. Don't worry, you can always come back to me, later. They're also linked in my sidebar, on the right.)

I guess this means that I can expect a slow trickle of increased visits here by readers from that website. Total strangers that will peek in, read whatever's floating around and then perhaps become steady visitors and eventually friends in real life.

I like that idea. Getting to know someone through their writing and then meeting them, in person. You walk into the meeting with so much appreciation for who they are and how they express themselves. A foundation of appreciation is already laid. How can things go awry from there?

(As a side note: I first met the girl that I mentioned below by reading her blog. Before I ever stood in a room with her, I knew so much about her. I was already a fan, before she ever said a word. Fortunately for me, she's equally attractive in real life, as she is, in print.)

Well, welcome to my blog, New Visitors from Chicago Blogger.com! You're definitely welcomed here. I appreciate everyone, from the silent lurkers to the pro-active commentators. And if you post something in my comments, I'll try to respond to it, as soon as I can. (Assuming a responses is needed or requested.) I look forward to exploring our future dialogue together.

Cheers,
Mr.B

PS: A Very Special Thanks to Madge Hixx who introduced me to the site, late one night, many months ago, at the Town Hall Pub. You were right, it IS a well designed site and a handy resource to have around.